Gig review part2: Jazzanova featuring Paul Randolph & MTV Music Week
Date: Sunday 4th November
Venue: The Gibson Club
in association with MTV Music Week
I first came across Jazzanova when I was a fashion student living in Shoreditch. They did occasional DJ sets in the bar/restaurant I worked in. I was a terrible waitress, as as soon as they were on, I'd disappear to dance with my friends trying to avoid my boss! Jazzanova Live are incredible, enigmatic and seriously talented. Now featuring Paul Randolph just shoves them over the edge into INCREDIBLE territory. I love their electronic jazz ethic, their obvious love for what they do and the crowd last night certainly appreciated it too.
Jazzanova is many things to many different people. For more than fifteen years the eclectic collective from Berlin has been busy producing, composing, arranging, remixing, DJing and generally shaping our musical world – in the clubs, on the air, in the studio, live on stage, and with their label Sonar Kollektiv. Their "very fertile musical world" (Time Out New York), which does "light a musical tinderbox" (The Face, UK), is "one of the best fusions of all the disparate elements of club music, yet" (Straight No Chaser) and "has dominated the jazz-dance and down-tempo scenes for the past few years, both with its own label and with countless remixes" (Phoenix New Times). For the past three years Jazzanova has also been touring internationally with a nine-piece-band, which now culminates in their newest release: "The Funkhaus Studio Sessions" (Sonar Kollektiv – SK237CD, 2012).
Jazzanova is in the midst of a fifteen year flow - from early underground-stardom via the big hype of the late 90s to the remarkably sophisticated matter of course that defines their current career. One of the reasons for this may be the way the members of the collective split qualities as well as responsibilities. Stefan Leisering and Axel Reinemer not only run the studio, composing, arranging, recording, and mixing everything Jazzanova; since early 2009 they have also taken over the duties of directing and touring internationally with the nine-piece Jazzanova live-band. Alexander Barck, Claas Brieler, and Jürgen von Knoblauch broaden the music's appeal as DJs, not only on tour through the best clubs and festivals around the world but also on their weekly radio-program (formerly on MDR Sputnik and Radio Multikulti, now on WDR Radio 1) and the Kaleidoskop-club-night, as well as with the hand-picked releases of their label Sonar Kollektiv (www.sonarkollektiv.com). And after all these inquisitive, innovative and sonically rich years the five of them still plan every new project and prospect together – Jazzanova is still a collective.
Paul Randolph: What a character, what a voice and what a brilliant addition to the band. He had me dancing hard by the end and I loved every minute of it.
Thank you Jazzanova for a brilliant evening.
Jazzanova featuring Paul Randolph
Catch them if you can:
- 10.11.2012 Jazzanova (DJ Class) Scala / Wah Wah Live, London, United Kingdom
- 16.11.2012 Jazzanova Band (Live) Istanbul Bronx Istanbul, Turkey
- 17.11.2012 Jazzanova Band (Live) Centre Culturel Tramsschapp Luxembourg
- 23.11.2012 Jazzanova Band (Live) Forum London, United Kingdom
Jazzanova featured as part of MTV Music week which culminates this Sunday in Frankfurt for the MTV Music Awards hosted by Heidi Klum
This week i'll be checking out Shantel playing tomorrow night at the Gibson Club and then have the privaledge of guestlist tickets for Sunday's Show 11.11.12.
If you aren't as lucky as me, then don't forgot to tune in and of course to read my review right here. Find out who I voted for later this week and who did what, how and where!
bis gleich
xx
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